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Global Experiences on Expanding Services to the Urban Poor

World Bank Group - 2009

In 2006-07, the Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia (WSP-SA) initiated a research toidentify barriers to service delivery for the urban poor. The research included a review ofvarious initiatives from across the globe that have resulted in improved service delivery for theurban poor and...

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The face of urban poverty : explaining the prevalence of slums in developing countries

Arimah, Ben C. - 2010

One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in...

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Livable Cities for the 21st Century : The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank

Wolfensohn, James D. - 1997

Habitat II, the second United Nations conference on human settlements, also known as the "City Summit," concluded its work on June 14, 1996, in Istanbul. Habitat II indelibly marked the increasingly urban nature of the world and the urgency, extent, and increasing size of problems facing people...

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Prospects for grid-connected solar photovoltaic in Kenya : a systems approach

Rose, Amy; Stoner, Robert J.; Pérez-Arriaga, Ignacio - 2014

sources such as solar and wind. We use a system-level model for Kenya to evaluate the potential of using grid-connected solar … unit commitment model whereby Kenya's extensive reservoir hydro-system compensates for solar intermittency. Results show …

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Kenya Economic Update, April 2020 : Turbulent Times for Growth in Kenya -- Policy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic

World Bank Group - 2020

affected by the novel coronavirus, Kenya's economy had decelerated. The World Bank estimates that GDP growth in 2019 was about …

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Kenya Public Expenditure Review 2020 : Options for Fiscal Consolidation after the COVID-19 Crisis

World Bank Group - 2020

and examines options for expenditure rationalization to help return Kenya's fiscal accounts to a prudent trajectory in the … controls in Kenya. It complements an ongoing governance for enabling service delivery and public investments in Kenya (GESDeK … while chapter three presents options for expenditure rationalization in Kenya. Chapter four ties it all together with fiscal …

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An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's trade

Were, Maureen; Ngoka, Kethi - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's foreign trade using quarterly trade data for the period 2019 … to the second quarter of 2021. The exploratory analysis shows that growth of Kenya's merchandise exports remained …

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

in Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. This paper shows that variation in business practices …

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Benefit Sharing in REDD+

World Bank - 2011

International policies to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) envisage the creation of financial incentive mechanisms that reward forest protection efforts and adequately compensate those actors that face new costs. In order for REDD+ to achieve these objectives,...

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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